PARIS (Hollywood Reporter) - Fashion icon Karl Lagerfeld is to lend his voice to an animated feature film for the first time in the French movie "Totally Spies."

Lagerfeld, head designer at French fashion brand Chanel, will feature as bad guy Fabu in the animated action film based on the long-running hit TV series about three high school girls who become secret agents, producer Marathon Media said on Wednesday.

The movie will open in France in July..

As a fashion line, Chanel has been ubiquitous on the big screen recently in the movies "Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky" and "Coco Before Chanel" starring Audrey Tautou.

(Editing by Jill Serjeant at Reuters)

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